#THE NINE

[s-u-w-i]

The Nine 💍🌿🏹 With this, I'd like to thank everyone who purchased someone from my Tolkien-characters-series! The earnings reached about 2 000USD and were donated to these three organizations (to help nature, animals, and humans) - Czech Union for Nature Conservation Caritas Bez mámy THANK YOU SO MUCH! 💖

[theforsakenprince]

Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate Trailer

"I'm sure you will. But not through me. Find someone else." "My will is my own."

[prince--esque]

Unserious Edge of Fate prediction

[collinnmckinley]

What follows light and shadow… is silence. That silence breaks. I am summoning you as a new age begins. I see sapient life turn to each other. They remember how to look to the stars. They remember curiosity. They remember how to thrive. But they have forgotten. They forgot we were here long before the traveler. They forgot that they need us. But they are fated to remember. I will remind them. Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate | Cinematic Trailer [x]

[thefirstknife]

Category 10 even in Rite of the Nine for me personally. There's little engrams to interact with at the start of the zone when you load in. When you load in for the first time, you only get one and then I assume when you pick up the collectibles (so 2 this week) you get another two. There's three little cutscenes in total.

The first one features the Nine giving us a message that swaps between the Emissary to start and then goes to Orin asking us for help:

The Emissary brings you a message from The Nine. The put forth a challenge to the Lightbearers - A begrudging implement, a worn tool! Guardian, please - We ask: make known your value, so divided gods may wield you in time.

We didn't even notice that it's multiple cutscenes at first, we thought we'd just be able to rewatch this one, but the second one is different. It features various landscapes with the Vex architecture and mysterious text from the Nine, including a special symbol at the end. The text formatting and the symbol are representing one of the Nine. They're finally identifying which one of them speaks in which way and with which planet they're connected. This one is Venus:

So the Nine associated with Venus speaks in all caps no punctuation (ignore the elipses, they seem to be present either way) and have this symbol. This is the entry to the Vault of Glass btw, therefore easily identified as Venus. Intrigued by what looks like the tentacles from Heresy. Maybe it's not but it looks that way to me. Full text:

CALIBRATE LET US STOKE THE EMBERS GRASP YOUR LIGHT LIKE SHADOWS ON CAVE WALLS SUMMONS UNHEARD WHY LIMIT YOURSELVES TO SUCH TRODDEN PATHS ALLOW US TO UPLIFT

The third we got was Earth:

EDZ, Cosmodrome, speaking in small caps no punctuation, this symbol: Earth Nine. Full text, elipses included for this but I think they can be ignored for the specific formatting of how this one speaks (we have to see details when they get to the Nine that use dots and pluses and minuses in their speech):

cherished...little motes...i swaddle out...of...fondness... our...symbiosis forever...conjunct...but... decay...decay...i cannot...hold... the rot...the spilling...of neutrinos...back please...come...

Very interesting differences between them! What excites me is that we'll see others. However, from what it seems it looks like we can't get all if they're unlocked through the collectibles in the dungeons, because there's only 6 collectibles. The first cutscene was for free and it didn't feature a specific Nine. So at worst we can only get 6 of them speaking. Possible others might get unlocked in some other way that isn't the collectibles? There's 9 spots where they're positioned, so all can fit, just no idea how we'll get the ones not tied to the collectibles.

What's even more interesting is that it starts with Venus. They confirmed definitively in the reveal stream that the Nine are 8 planets and the Sun. Obviously we only have 2 so far so we don't really have a pattern but it's quite the coincidence that it goes Venus and then Earth, rather than some other bizarre order.

Also, not to use merch as lore, but the Rite of the Nine shirt shows all of the 9 symbols for them and these two, for Venus and Earth are 2nd and 3rd, aka where they should be. So the 1st symbol should be Mercury and I assume the Sun will be the last. So the cutscenes starting with Venus means that the first one was skipped and like. It makes sense. The planet is gone. This would also confirm that the Nine that's missing from the Division lore tab is indeed Mercury and also that it won't have a cutscene, unless the order is completely screwed up after starting with Venus and Earth.

I'm super excited to finally being able to match all the individual Nine to their own formatting type and symbol and planet. Can't wait to see how many of these we're going to get and if we'll get all or not. Are the rest going to be in order or not? Is Mercury entirely skipped because it's missing? Are there going to be only 8 cutscenes then? I need to know this right now.

Also, for doing the collectibles you get the lore book! It's two collectibles per dungeon so first two are this week in Spire of the Watcher. However, you can just get the collectibles on each character to unlock the whole lore book. This is definitely a bug because when I got to my other character, that triumph was labelled as unfinished despite me finishing it on my main. Either way you can get the whole lore book this way. It's definitely something else. Difficult to read and process, deals with Orin and her wrestling with the Nine. A lot of chatter from the Nine.

I did not expect this much lore from this, I was cautiously optimistic, but this is incredible. After all these years, being able to properly identify all of the Nine is huge. Getting some answers about them and how they function also, as well as the question of what's going on to the Nine that's associated with a planet that was eaten by the Witness and not returned.

[halbrannatar]

I just saw a theory on the reddit, that say Sauron will use Morgoth's crown as Morgul's blade for the Nazgûls, by re-forging it. Apperently it has 9 Spikes 🙂‍↔️ And i LOVE this idea! 🔥

[georgiacooked]

Throwing a spotlight on my favourite Doctor Who/Big Finish character(s) today, with my newest sticker sheet!

Featuring the renegade Time Lord, the Eleven (and Two, and Eight, and Nine, and Twelve, and The Union...) These guys are the reason I fell in love with BF, so it only felt fair to give them a sheet.

Only drawing the regenerations we've met so far, because I'm not that flush with time.

[ryanthedoctor11]

You know something that tends to be forgotten about the Eleven? (As well as all their other incarnations), including by every audio he appeared in outside of the first. That he was obsessed with the Doctor. He even planned his escape from Gallifrey in that first appearance to mirror the Doctor's, it was also mentioned in that story that he used to look into the Doctor constantly. Every story after that it was seemingly forgotten about and that disappoints me just because that could have been an interesting layer to all of their interactions which was never used, especially with younger incarnations such as the Two

[love-and-doom]

Strong candidate for one of the nine

[vanglaggle]

dust as one of these guys

wraith......

[remy-lys]

Riordanverse Head canons

—Leo is trans f to m and also gay :)

—Percy is pan (this may or may not be canon I can’t remember)

—The nine loooooove Disney cartoons like The Owl House and Gravity Falls and Amphibia and very likely more

—Nico has a legit alter in his cabin and worships gods he likes like hestia, Persephone, possibly hades, and possibly hermes (he also does Apollo but he only prays to him about will’s well being)

—after TSATS Nico and Piper talk more often

—the nine play smash bros and Mario cart very often

—Will has a pet bird. I have zero explanation

—Percy adopts every cat on the streets and they do not get along with will’s bird and Percy’s fishies

—Frank’s too innocent to say more swears then “dam(n)” however if you bother his family or friends that are actually just family, you’re only chance is to get on your knees and pray

—Leo goes to the forge when he’s upset cause it gets out his emotions and…he was in there for weeks straight after Jason died

—Will kisses nico’s scars

—people imagine Nico with horrendous eye bags and don’t get me wrong he does have them, but Will does too. I mean he works in the infirmary and probably works there all night. So in conclusion, Solangelo should always be depicted with the darkest eye bags ever

—Leo loves Pokémon sun and moon and always does the fire type moves with them

—Apollo visits Meg often and she taught him how to garden

—Percy listens to the Mowgli’s in the car. (I love the Mowgli’s)

—Leo and Percy give bad drivers a thumbs down instead of flipping them off

that’s all for now, I hope you have a good day!

[millenariumhappinesstheorem]

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Katarina's story always makes me so sad. My poor baby was having visions of her death before she died. She thought she had to die because it was foretold. She was little more than Cassandra's slave in Troy. When she met Two, they determined that she HAD to die to prevent a Dalek invasion. Three whole months worth of her adventures with One and Steven were erased from the timeline. She expelled herself out of an airlock to stop the invasion. Her body was recovered floating in space by River Song only to be stolen by the Nine.

My poor babyyyy

[prince--esque]

Eagerly awaiting May 6th

[local-dragon-haunt]

I SAW YOUR MERMAN HICCUP AU AND I AM OBSESSED

Made me think though about what if the dragons in a mermaid AU were different sea creatures. Toothless would definitely be an orca.

See me personally, I just figured I'd give the dragons the gills that they had in the books! That way I get my two favorite things: mermaids and dragons in one AU LMAO

It is funny that you mention orcas though, because I actually did a redesign of Thunder from TNR wayyy back when the show first premiered, and one of the iterations I fell in love with was this orca inspired design (which I then proceeded to do nothing with):

but yeah I TOTALLY fuck with night/light furies being whales of some sort. I still remember back when THW was first premiering and I was so convinced that Light Fury was gonna be semiaquatic bc...she just looks like!!!! A beluga whale!!!!!

Anyways uhhhh thanks for liking my merman!Hiccup au! You're a real one for that lmao. I have a WIP in my fanfiction folder for it that I hope to publish one day but I have like....200k words worth of other WIPs that I need to finish first LMAO